Russian roulette (muscle confusion) challenge!!!!
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mathewscarlett
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This is for those cardio lovers. Do you like p90x?
Do you like insanity test? Then you'll like this workout.
Ok buy yourself a deck of cards. A sheet of paper and a pencil. You have 52 cards + 2 jokers. Write down 13 workouts on the sheet of paper mostly calisthenics and throw some weights in there if preferred. Write the card # in order from ace to king. Now write those 13 workouts next to the card #'s at random. That card is assigned to that workout. The joker will be a semi break period to run in place for a minute or so. So you have 13 workouts. That will be 4 sets of each workout.
Shuffle the deck really good. Pull the first card and do that workout. Do the whole deck without stopping. (note - if you pull the same card twice in a row, place it on the pottom of the deck.
Example - (note - you dont have to use these specific workouts, you can make your own list.)
Ace - pushups - 25 reps
2 - body squats - 50 reps
3 - hammer curls with dumbbells - 10 reps
4 - jumping jacks - 50 reps
5 - mountain climbers - 25 reps
6 - planks 1 minute
7 - situps - 50 reps
8 - leg lifts - 25 reps (lower abs )
9 - lunges - 25 reps
10 - pullups (all the way in) - 10 reps
Jack - lawnmower pulls - 25 reps
Queen - electric chair - 1 minute
King - tricep extensions - 15 reps
Joker - run in place for 1 minute.
Remember, these cards will be coming out at random. And if you get the same card twice, put it on the bottom of the deck.
Do you like insanity test? Then you'll like this workout.
Ok buy yourself a deck of cards. A sheet of paper and a pencil. You have 52 cards + 2 jokers. Write down 13 workouts on the sheet of paper mostly calisthenics and throw some weights in there if preferred. Write the card # in order from ace to king. Now write those 13 workouts next to the card #'s at random. That card is assigned to that workout. The joker will be a semi break period to run in place for a minute or so. So you have 13 workouts. That will be 4 sets of each workout.
Shuffle the deck really good. Pull the first card and do that workout. Do the whole deck without stopping. (note - if you pull the same card twice in a row, place it on the pottom of the deck.
Example - (note - you dont have to use these specific workouts, you can make your own list.)
Ace - pushups - 25 reps
2 - body squats - 50 reps
3 - hammer curls with dumbbells - 10 reps
4 - jumping jacks - 50 reps
5 - mountain climbers - 25 reps
6 - planks 1 minute
7 - situps - 50 reps
8 - leg lifts - 25 reps (lower abs )
9 - lunges - 25 reps
10 - pullups (all the way in) - 10 reps
Jack - lawnmower pulls - 25 reps
Queen - electric chair - 1 minute
King - tricep extensions - 15 reps
Joker - run in place for 1 minute.
Remember, these cards will be coming out at random. And if you get the same card twice, put it on the bottom of the deck.
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Its very important to do the whole deck without stopping.0
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Thats 54 sets without stopping. Only for the extreme cardio lovers1
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if I feel like it I do a variation challenge: 60 seconds exercise, 10 seconds to come up with and prepare for the next. it always goes in circles: pushup, lunge, core, squat and every round needs to contain a new variation of those 4 exercise groups. It might look like:
normal pushup
back lunge
bicycle
wall sit
military bodyweight press
skaters
hip thrust
(attempt at) one legged squat left
etc...1 -
I confuse my muscles by doing supine grip overhead chest curls.4
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Must try0
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mathewscarlett wrote: »Must try
Why?2 -
Never. Sounds awful. Horrid.6
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arditarose wrote: »Never. Sounds awful. Horrid.
So don't. If you don't like it, dont try it.0 -
diannethegeek wrote: »mathewscarlett wrote: »Must try
Why?
Its a challenge. Its complete muscle confusion. But if you dont want to then dont. Im just sharing something i know.0 -
Luckily muscles don't really need confusion. I'll go with progressive overload.6
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Your right. Your muscles dont need muscle confusion. But they dont need progressive overload either. Ive been working out off and on for 10 years now, and in my experience i get more results and faster from muscle confusion. And how about this, they finnally did a study on muscle confusion with actual scientist's. And your right, your muscle are not actually confused.
But..... They did say that the method exceeds they're expectations. Results and time. Ill post the study.0 -
mathewscarlett wrote: »Your right. Your muscles dont need muscle confusion. But they dont need progressive overload either. Ive been working out off and on for 10 years now, and in my experience i get more results and faster from muscle confusion. And how about this, they finnally did a study on muscle confusion with actual scientist's. And your right, your muscle are not actually confused.
But..... They did say that the method exceeds they're expectations. Results and time. Ill post the study.
Here is the study, they used p90x as they're muscle confusion workout.
www.acefitness.org/certifiednewsarticle/1865/does-p90x-really-bring-it0 -
Ok, look at it this way. Complete muscle confusion makes you athletic.0
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Muscle confusion
Me: 20 push-ups
Me: 20 squats
Me: 20 pull-ups
My muscles: "What?? What's going on?? I don't understand!!! Are we pushing, squatting or pulling?? I don't get it!!!!"
Sorry, chief, but muscle confusion isn't what you think it is and doesn't work the way you think it does.
Changing the movements you do doesn't confuse your muscles. Your muscles don't decide or anticipate what's going on or what needs to happen. Your brain determines the desired movement and coordinates the proper contractions of the proper muscles to perform the maneuver (all the muscles do is contract/relax). Your brain doesn't forget how to do a push-up while you're doing a squat. It also doesn't just anticipate more squats so doing push-ups isn't going to make your brain (or your muscles) go "Whoah, didn't see that one coming!"
You can vary the intensity/duration of lifts and movements in order to attain certain goals but you're certainly not confusing any part of your body.
Besides, if the goal is to get a varied, full body workout, wouldn't it be better to just structure a varied, full body workout instead of leaving it to chance? And if the idea is that leaving it to chance means you never know what's coming next, don't you think your brain will have gotten the message and know what's up before you ever set the card back down (and so then your muscles "know" too, since they just follow the brain's commands anyway)?6 -
mathewscarlett wrote: »mathewscarlett wrote: »Your right. Your muscles dont need muscle confusion. But they dont need progressive overload either. Ive been working out off and on for 10 years now, and in my experience i get more results and faster from muscle confusion. And how about this, they finnally did a study on muscle confusion with actual scientist's. And your right, your muscle are not actually confused.
But..... They did say that the method exceeds they're expectations. Results and time. Ill post the study.
Here is the study, they used p90x as they're muscle confusion workout.
www.acefitness.org/certifiednewsarticle/1865/does-p90x-really-bring-it
Nice. Your article says p90x is a sufficient cardio workout.
I'm sure you could see similar results with running. And it has nothing to do with muscle confusion; it's mentioned because it prevents "boredom".
I don't get bored with few exercises. In fact, having lots of different exercises bothers me and can create anxiety. The more equipment I use, the more likely it is that it will be taken at the gym, plus I have to remember proper form for lots of different things.
I've personally had a lot of luck with progressive overload.
I'm not sure what you're convinced these workouts "work" for. The article you posted said sufficient to result in weight loss. But it's a calorie deficit that does that.
I've had very effective weight loss through just reducing calorie intake as well as other times with just walking, or cardio only, or a combination of cardio and heavy lifting.
Why do you keep insisting that people need to do this your way?
Or are you looking to start a "challenge" with people who want to just try new things for a period of time and haven't figured out where the challenge subforum is?4 -
mathewscarlett wrote: »Ok, look at it this way. Complete muscle confusion makes you athletic.
(American council on exercise) did the study.0 -
mathewscarlett wrote: »Your right. Your muscles dont need muscle confusion. But they dont need progressive overload either. Ive been working out off and on for 10 years now, and in my experience i get more results and faster from muscle confusion. And how about this, they finnally did a study on muscle confusion with actual scientist's. And your right, your muscle are not actually confused.
But..... They did say that the method exceeds they're expectations. Results and time. Ill post the study.
Umm...what exactly do we not need progressive overload for?
If you want to get stronger and if you want your muscles to grow, progressive overload is quite certainly the only way it's going to happen.2 -
Is the brain a muscle?
If it is - then you've just succeeded in confusing mine - what do I get ?6 -
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mathewscarlett wrote: »Ok, look at it this way. Complete muscle confusion makes you athletic.
Engaging in athletic activity makes you athletic.
Running until you're a good runner (either for speed or distance) makes you athletic.
Playing tennis until you're a good tennis player makes you athletic.
Lifting heavy weights until you can lift even heavier weights makes you athletic.
And muscle confusion still does not even mean what you seem to think it means.7 -
you ever heard of maintaining. You can simply maintain your muscles to stay in shape. If your already where you want to be, you dont need progressive overload.0
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Carlos_421 wrote: »mathewscarlett wrote: »Ok, look at it this way. Complete muscle confusion makes you athletic.
Engaging in athletic activity makes you athletic.
Running until you're a good runner (either for speed or distance) makes you athletic.
Playing tennis until you're a good tennis player makes you athletic.
Lifting heavy weights until you can lift even heavier weights makes you athletic.
And muscle confusion still does not even mean what you seem to think it means.
They have done studys on too much running, it will tighten up your muscles, and long distance running is now proven to be bad for your heart. They did a study on long distance runners, and they're left ventrical had 25 % less function, and 10 % of all long distance runners had heart emzymes in they're blood, (scarring on the heart).0 -
Your body, both mind and muscle catch on very quickly. I know from personal experience, doing the same movements/routine over and over slows or halts my progress. Even if I progressively add weight. So, I constantly switch things up. I may do superset splits for a month, then circuits the next month, and so on. I have progressed quicker than I ever have before, and I'm not new to resistance training. Everyone is different, and everyone has different goals. I think too many people are biased. When you close your mind to something different, you may just be loosing out.2
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mathewscarlett wrote: »you ever heard of maintaining. You can simply maintain your muscles to stay in shape. If your already where you want to be, you dont need progressive overload.
1) Even the vast majority of people in maintenance (those maintaining their current weight) still want to improve their strength and/or grow their muscles. It's pretty rare for someone who's actually had any success gaining muscle and strength to say "you know, I'm good right here."
2) Even if one did want to maintain current muscle mass and strength levels, it would likely require a bigger load than is described in your "muscle confusion" workouts (myself, I'd certainly see a good deal of strength and size loss doing only this workout). They'd have to identify their current abilities and continue to do as much as they can but simply not press themselves any further (I.e. Someone who was barely able to finish 3 sets of 10 at 185 lbs on the bench press would have to continue to do 3 sets of 10 at 185 lbs).
3) Say a young woman has just started dieting down to her goal weight and wants to start lifting for the first time in order to maintain her muscles but doesn't want to gain any more muscle. Because the muscles will initially respond to the exercise by becoming more efficient (firing the muscle fibers in sync), she will become stronger without any growth for the first several weeks. She will need progressive overload in order to compensate for the newbie strength gains.
4) The vast majority of people who are happy with their current muscle mass and strength levels will already be limited enough by diminishing returns, genetic limitations and/or lifestyle that their ability to progress will take care of itself.1 -
www.active.com/health/articles/why-too-much-running-is-bad-for-your-health0
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mathewscarlett wrote: »Carlos_421 wrote: »mathewscarlett wrote: »Ok, look at it this way. Complete muscle confusion makes you athletic.
Engaging in athletic activity makes you athletic.
Running until you're a good runner (either for speed or distance) makes you athletic.
Playing tennis until you're a good tennis player makes you athletic.
Lifting heavy weights until you can lift even heavier weights makes you athletic.
And muscle confusion still does not even mean what you seem to think it means.
They have done studys on too much running, it will tighten up your muscles, and long distance running is now proven to be bad for your heart. They did a study on long distance runners, and they're left ventrical had 25 % less function, and 10 % of all long distance runners had heart emzymes in they're blood, (scarring on the heart).
What does this have to do with your claim that muscle confusion makes you athletic?
Are you saying that too much long distance running causing problems for some means that runners aren't athletes?
Should we alert the olympics that running is no longer an athletic event?
Also, I said "either for speed or distance." What about sprinters? They don't run long distance but they're very athletic.3 -
What is the winning prize ??
I am a cardio lover, I run and I have run until I have become a great runner and I lift weights and I lift until I cannot lift no more weight each day.. so what in the heck do I get out doing this? Besides a major brain muscle headache..
Running is bad for my health now.. urrrrggg And now we are all closed minded.. I am sorry I stepped into this thread now..urrrrgggg again..1 -
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mathewscarlett wrote: »
www.marksdailyapple.com/muscle-imbalances/#axzz4DIba5wiM
To much running is bad for your health. And you dont have to do this workout. I simply posted it, but of course they're has to be negative feedback.0 -
mathewscarlett wrote: »
www.marksdailyapple.com/muscle-imbalances/#axzz4DIba5wiM
Still has nothing to do with muscle confusion0
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